Emil Schultz-Riga Explained

Emil Schultz-Riga (1872 – 2 November 1931) was a Baltic Germans-Russian landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. He also worked with portraits and floral still lifes.[1]

Life

Born in Daugavpils, Russian Empire, Schultz-Riga studied from 1892 to 1895 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. There, Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill were his teachers.[2] Schultz-Riga was a member of the artists association Malkasten. Together with, Theodor Groll, Carl Ernst Bernhard Jutz and others, Schultz-Riga founded the Novembergruppe.[3] He was represented at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung in 1909.

Schultz-Riga died in Düsseldorf.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. [Klaus F. Müller]
  2. [Bettina Baumgärtel]
  3. Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronik der Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1815–2011. In Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.), vol. 1, (PDF)
  4. , vol. 62, Verlag G. Löffler, Riga 1931,